From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Return Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:38:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mxojwu15.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k4jnweng.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87sjya2b7d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291941917 26330 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 00:45:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:45:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 01:45:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQr6j-0008R7-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:45:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46087 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQr6i-0001VI-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:45:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44583 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQp8T-0003vu-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:38:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQp8S-0004Fa-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:38:49 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:37207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQp8S-0004FI-3I; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id oB9MckRO013707; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DC74164096; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:38:45 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87sjya2b7d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:17:58 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3704=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133555 Archived-At: > There are lots of reasons for doing a defun inside of a function. Give me examples and I'll tell you if I consider them as valuable enough. > One important point of Lisp is making it easy to create > code programmatically. Could be, but that's unrelated: I don't intend to rule out (eval `(defun ...)). Stefan